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I was Off the Grid for 3 days and it was great



hey Doug Huntington here from niche site
project so I was on a little trip over
the last few days I was back in Atlanta
I'm living in Montana currently in
Bozeman and I was back in Atlanta for
several days actually 13 days it was
actually a little overwhelming which
we'll talk about in a second but the
sort of cool part is that I went on a
trip with a few friends and we were
basically like completely off the grid
right we were in the like North Georgia
Mountains they called them but they're
really sort of like foothills and we
were it was near helen georgia
by the way so we got a couple people on
by the way give me a shout if you're
watching I see Carl I see silver what's
up good to have you on and we basically
were out on an Old Forest Service Road
where occasionally you could get a like
a 1 X data signal and a little bit of
the cell phone service but it was
probably like a five minute drive from
where we actually set up camp so the
reason why we didn't get like really any
services off at all is there were there
were like big Hills on either side so we
were kind of in a gully
Neera stream so we had a really nice
spot we were like sheltered from the
wind a little bit and it was just great
all of us guys sort of we've worked in
IT or were very like connected people
and just have our phones you know
attached to our hand so like the fact
that we couldn't check anything from
multiple days it was it was kind of
great you know no notifications were
going off at some point I just like left
my we stood in an RV like a camper so at
some point I just like left my phone
inside and didn't even like bring it
with me when I was walking around or
hanging out outside or cooking or
whatever so it was pretty great now I
will mention that
I was back in Atlanta and trying to
visit family I'm from the Atlanta area
and it was kind of overwhelming just in
general being around so many more people
I'm in a town of about 45,000 there are
several million in the Atlanta metro
area and you know a topic for another
day is traffic but there was a great
deal of traffic and I was trying to go
around and see a lot of my family and
friends it ended up being like quite
busy but I knew that you know towards
the end of the trip I would be you know
out sort of camping sort of away from
things and that was great so today will
be a fairly brief livestream since I was
visiting family and stuff I didn't do
too many live streams when I was out I
scheduled some videos and I will tell
you that I have a couple cool videos I'm
going to publish probably publish the
first one later on today but if you've
been following me for a little while you
know that I have a course it's called
Fivefinger niche site and I launched it
like a month ago I did sort of behind
the scenes just like vlog style videos
of me talking about like what I'm what
I'm working on like leading up to the
launch I talked about what what I'm
doing each of the launch days and just
sort of like walk you through the
process you know I'm not giving out any
like launch material or anything like
that but it's just you know the reality
of like you know working for yourself
and being you know an internet marketer
there's a lot of work a lot of a lot of
people tell you it's like super easy and
it'll you know it's really just
straightforward but everything is fairly
difficult and everything even if you are
you know launching a course for the
fifth time or something like that it's a
little bit overwhelming there's a lot of
moving pieces there's a lot going on
I see a successful roller coaster on
good to have you on what's up and then
Lance good to have you on so I am
working on getting back into the swing
of things I just got back from my trip
on Monday night so yesterday was quite
busy today
I'm sort of like ramping back up and of
course this is a holiday week here in
the US so tomorrow's a holiday my wife's
off of work for Thursday and Friday so
tomorrow and the next day so you know
I'm planning on enjoying that time off
as well even though I you know have
about two weeks where I was only working
about an hour a day or so we have Leila
on - what's up and then a meal good to
have everyone on so I did a few like I
tried to do some video and I tried to do
some vlog stuff while I was you know on
my trip it's it's there's a lot of
pieces of it I'm not my main focus is
not doing the vlog stuff so I definitely
have not made that like a priority and
as I was going through my day a lot of
times if I have like the option to you
know try and document things and I guess
record things so that they were
presentable later Bert later I would opt
to not do it and just enjoy myself and
not worry about documenting stuff and
just sort of live in the moment while I
was visiting family and friends so I
think that was a good choice to
definitely you know took a little stress
out and from my perspective you know
looking at I guess working while
traveling it's difficult you know
there's like especially when you're
visiting people or you're in a new place
it's a little difficult to do any sort
of like new work so I had a little bit
of a tough time I mean I intentionally
scheduled very little new work and a lot
of it was you know either working with
students or maintaining
my email account right and just making
sure that I was answering the emails in
a timely fashion for students hum and
kind of a Mathur email address go go to
waste so yeah thanks smile is a new day
appreciate that so any you know I'll do
a Q&A probably on Friday we'll see how
that goes most likely gonna do a Q&A on
Friday but if anyone has any questions
related to like being off off the grid
or disconnecting or anything like that
would be interesting to hear it okay and
Karl is asking a question
so you've cloned your site from the UK
and so that isn't really related to the
off the grid topic Karl obviously but
I'll answer your your question yeah you
should delete your old site basically
yeah you should be directed 301
redirected to the new site basically
there are different ways to do that but
yeah basically you want a 301 redirect
the old site to the new site so yeah no
worries Karl it's just you know if I
answer unrelated questions in depth
people will never find them so okay cool
so I encourage you if you if you can if
you have the ability to you know you can
emulate this you uh you can't basically
put your phone on airplane mode and
chill out for a little while so that is
it's highly recommended I'm reading a
book right now where you know they're
they're talking about like actually
getting good work done and one of the
best ways to do it is you know leave
your phone in the other room just
connect from the internet and do the
work you're trying to do now granted
times you need an internet connection to
do the work and you just have to be
disciplined to stay on that specific
task but disconnecting usually is a good
idea
so yeah Carlin hood no worries buddy
Anthony says do I feel the urge to check
on your business how do I handle that
internal stress I I did I did have the
urge at some points in time but once I
made it through like the first 30
minutes of actually the drive out where
I still had like an LTE high-speed
connection I basically like checked out
and I was like uninterested in checking
my email in general earlier in my like
entrepreneurial career I probably
checked on those sort of things and
metrics more specifically but you know
while I was out one of my sites had like
a record record amount of traffic last
Sunday and most likely it'll have a
record amount on this coming Friday
being Black Friday and that was all I
mean all the work that I've done leading
up to taking the time off is what makes
that possible so I know there's
basically nothing I could do while I'm
out there that would make make a big
difference so I just was present in the
moment and you know no one had a
connection which is cool when you're
having conversations so it was like
three of my buddies it's cool when
you're having conversations because no
one can google anything we have to talk
it out and remember using our minds like
whatever it is were debating so kind of
fun and silver says when do I feel it's
the right time to take time off when you
feel burned out or when you get bored or
tired of the work um I don't have like a
tight answer for that other than you
should take the bike you should take a
break before you feel tired or bored or
burned out and I think for me right I go
to the gym usually you know five times a
week or something like that like even if
it's a like a kind of a
or week workout like just going to the
gym I'm better off doing like a 20%
workout then like not going to the gym
it's better if I just you know show up
stick in the habit and stick with it so
it was actually talking to my wife today
I buy like the gym membership and a
6-month block it's just like the most
economic for me and it ran out while I
was gone while I was out of town that
was debating like waiting in a week or
two before going back just to like you
know worked out in my garage just for a
change of pace but like it is important
for me to take that break get out of the
house go to the gym so I'm probably
going to go like after lunch and you
know pay for another six months it's an
important thing for me so you should
figure out like what you get sort of
energized from and then do that also
just walking outside so like this
morning before I started working I went
out and walked for like 45 minutes and I
feel better because of it Layla says you
don't have a related question is all
entitled zero search really good yes
generally and it sure is
and then other Doug is on blew a fuse
what's up and then Anthony do I have
someone monitoring that for you which
portion Anthony as far as the monitoring
it all looks like the questions have
slowed down so I will call it a day
after Anthony clarifies the question
here and like I said look out for the
video that I'm gonna post it's a series
so when I did when I recorded these
behind the scenes like launch videos I
shot one each day I started like the day
before the launch and went all the way
through to the next week so it's like
day 0 1 2 3 4 5 and then day 7 which is
like after the launch interesting thing
is
after the launch like that I mean I was
just so amped up even though this was
sort of like the cleanest launch that I
had it was the most organized I was the
I cleared out my schedule so well then I
could just focus on like that portion
which I think I'd end up talking about
in the videos but anyway there are what
seven videos total or six videos total
that I go through like the whole my
whole mindset and you can see it is I'm
progressing sometimes I'm tired
sometimes I have a lot of energy and
that sort of thing so okay Anthony says
do I have someone monitoring my business
for me no I mean I have I have one
person helping me with a little email
support maybe like 30 minutes a day or
so for the course but other than that I
basically you know take care of it
myself I've built it in a way where I
don't need to have a staff of like
anything full-time it's just a couple of
freelancers I'm looking I'm actually
bringing someone on to you know help me
out a little bit more in another aspect
just so I can get out of the weeds a
little bit so that'll be really helpful
for me then Anthony says do I Scott
discuss my business with others that are
with you in the off-grid or strangers um
so when I was off the grid I was with my
friends so I discussed it to some level
but you know only what was relevant and
then with strangers I would discuss I
mean I would discuss what I do most
people have no idea what I do though so
it's very like I actually met someone in
a networking event called a 1 million
cups a couple weeks ago she knew what I
was working on and had an interest in
doing some similar stuff so I you know
talked to her for a little while and you
know she's interested in it and has like
a podcast and you know some other people
she's working with so you know she was a
stranger until I started talking to her
so now I would say she's a acquaintances
or friends
but yeah good questions Anthony thanks
for asking and yeah like I said I'm just
gonna keep it brief today so planning on
doing a Q&A on Friday so keep an eye out
for that I don't have anything in my
talent or so I'm assuming I can set
aside a little time to do that so thanks
everyone have a great day have a good
Thanksgiving if you celebrate that if
not have a good regular old Thursday
tomorrow see ya

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